Men Quotes

For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times

A consciousness of misfortunes arising from a man's own misconduct aggravates their bitterness.

There is a radical dualism between the empirical nature of man and its moral nature.

When I first came to the House of Commons and walked out into the lobby, men sprang to their feet. I asked them to sit down since I'd come to walk around. I didn't want them doing me favours.

I believe the preservation of the home in the future lies almost entirely in the hands of men.

And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.

Our priorities require that all children of Palestine, men and women, be ready for conflict, both from the standpoint of training and from the standpoint of armament.

I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.

True religion is removed from diet and days, from garments and ceremonies, and placed where it belongs - in the union of the spirit of man with the Spirit of God.

Deux me' tresou un peu plusse parent donc l'homme de la femme. Two metres, or a little more, separates a man from a woman.

All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day.

Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.

Experience really does make you better, man.

We're just getting better at our trade, man. We know what we're doing, and the reason why is that we've spent 30 years doing it. There's nothing that can replace that.

In order to exist, man must rebel.

Nothing is given to mankind and what little men can conquer must be paid for with unjust death. But man's grandeur lies elsewhere, in his decision to rise above his condition.

There are more things to admire in men than to despise.

This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.

God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.

Nothing causes more consternation in a group of hypocrits than one honest man.

Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot

Schools need not preach political doctrine to defend democracy. If they shape men capable of critical thought and trained in social attitudes, that is all that is necessary.

My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days.

Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

Whatever a man does he must do first in his mind.

Why does man behave like perfect idiot? This is the problem I wish to deal with.

Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal desperation.

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.

It is a brave man who is the first to sit down during a standing ovation.

...skepticism can never provide firm ground under a man's feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground.

Do you have children? she asked. No. Why? The man answered that one had to have faith in the world to have children.

If you look at the whole life of the planet, we - you know, Man - has only been around for a few blinks of an eye. So if the infection wipes us all out, that is a return to normality.

Fifty years ago, 100 white men chasing one black man across a field was called the Ku Klux Klan. Today it's called the PGA Tour.

[Imeachable conduct is] misconduct by public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust.

Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity; both being equally subject to change.

In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's blessed.

So upright Quakers please both man and God.

Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.

Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.

Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.

Prayer is a force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men lifted out of sickness by the power of prayer. It is the only power in the world that overcomes the laws of nature.